a r t i c l e i n f o Identity research argues for enhancing students' current and future positive academic self-concepts to strengthen educational success. However, multiple factors from youths' home and school ecologies, as well as structural disadvantage , influence this relationship. Using the data from the Beyond High School Study (N = 9658), this analysis examines the role of academic sel...

Since the 1980s, multiple sources have suggested that the number of clinician scientists in academic medicine has declined substantially.1–5 More recently, Corrice et al identified that 2.9 to 10% of American, full-time clinical MD faculty planned to leave academia and 13 to 27.8% were unsure of staying or leaving.6 Although no data regarding the size or productivity of the academic spine surge...

I believe that the determinants of academic success as a clinician-scientist (defined in terms of principal investigatorship, lead authorship, promotion, tenure, career awards, honours, power and reputation) are not “academic” (defined in terms of intelligence, theoretical understanding, mastery of a body of knowledge and teaching skills). Although some academics fail because they are crazy and...

Objective: The aim of this review is to study the accuracy of commercially available progression examinations in predicting student success to determine if there are significant differences in scores for those who are academically successful and to discuss the implications of the findings in relation to the use of progression policies. Methods: Research papers published between January 2001 and...

High attrition rates among students in associate degree nursing programs are a concern for faculty, administrators, and students. Programs offering academic and emotional support for students at risk for failing a clinical course may decrease attrition rates and improve academic performance. A peer tutoring program was developed for returning nursing students who were unsuccessful in a previous...

Inevitably, reading is one of the requirements to be undergone. To improve the performance and quality, someone needs to have something new every day. It will suggest you to have more inspirations, then. However, the needs of inspirations will make you searching for some sources. Even from the other people experience, internet, and many books. Books and internet are the recommended media to hel...

Research tells us that academic preparation is key to deaf students' success at college. Yet, that is not the whole story. Many academically prepared students drop out during their first year. This study identified entering deaf college students' personal factors as assessed by their individual responses to both the Noel-Levitz College Student Inventory Form B and the Learning and Study Strateg...

This study aimed at determining the effect of instruction in cognitive and metacognitive strategies on the students' educational self-esteem and academic performance. 87 students were selected through random sampling. The two first groups were consciously taught about cognitive and metacognitive strategies. All the classes were taught by the same teacher. Pourmoghaddasian’s self-esteem question...